To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
DALLAS WILLARDFew people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
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My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing — by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
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The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace. The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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You really can’t justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.
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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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We are becoming who we will be-forever.
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In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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God’s address is at the end of your rope.
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When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
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Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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We don’t believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.
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It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
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